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The Motorways Traffic (Scotland) Regulations 1995
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- 1995 No. 2507 (S. 183)
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- Regulations applied (with modifications) by S.S.I. 2012/147 reg. 4
- Regulations applied (with modifications) by S.S.I. 2012/343 reg. 5
- Regulations applied (with modifications) by S.S.I. 2012/344 reg. 5
- Regulations applied (with modifications) by S.S.I. 2017/129 reg. 6
- Regulations applied (with modifications) by S.S.I. 2021/43 reg. 2
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- Sch. para. 4-6 inserted by S.S.I. 2019/168 reg. 2
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Use of motorway by excluded trafficS
13.—(1) Excluded traffic is hereby authorised to use a motorway on the occasions, or in the emergencies, and to the extent, specified in the following provisions of this paragraph, that is to say—
(a)traffic of Classes III or IV may use a motorway for the maintenance, repair, cleaning or clearance of any part of a motorway or for the erection, laying, placing, maintenance, testing, alteration, repair or removal of any structure, works or apparatus in, on, under or over any part of a motorway;
(b)pedestrians may use a motorway—
(i)when it is necessary for them to do so as a result of an accident or emergency or as a result of a vehicle being at rest on a motorway in any of the circumstances specified in paragraph (2) of regulation 6 above, or
(ii)in any other circumstances specified in sub-paragraphs (b), (d), (e) or (f) of paragraph (1) of regulation 14 below.
(2) The Secretary of State may authorise the use of a motorway by any excluded traffic on occasion, or in emergency, or for the purpose of enabling such traffic to cross a motorway, or to secure access to premises abutting on or adjacent to a motorway.
(3) Where by reason of any emergency the use of any road (not being a motorway) by any excluded traffic is rendered impossible or unsuitable, the Chief Constable of Police for the area in which the motorway or any part of the motorway is situated, or any officer of, or above, the rank of superintendent authorised in that behalf by that Chief Constable, may—
(a)authorise any excluded traffic to use that motorway, or that part of a motorway, as an alternative road for the period during which the use of the other road by such traffic continues to be impossible or unsuitable, and
(b)relax any prohibition or restriction imposed by these Regulations insofar as he considers it necessary to do so in connection with the use of that motorway or that part of a motorway by excluded traffic in pursuance of any such authorisation as aforesaid.
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